N. 0. POLYGON ACK/E 
1075 
1058. P. glabrum , Willd h.f.b.i., v. 34 ; Roxb 
334. 
Vern . : — Sauri arak, jioti (Santal) ; Larborna, bill agui, bill 
langaui, patbarua (Assam); Rakta rohida sheral (Bomb.); 
Atalaria (Tam.). 
Habitat': — In ditches, etc., from Assam, Sylhet and Bengal 
Westward to the Indus and Sindh, and southward to Burma, 
ascending the Himalaya to 0,400ft. in Garhwal. 
Glabrous herbs. Stem 2-5ft., stout, slightly branched, some- 
what swollen above nodes, shining purplish-red. Leaves usual- 
ly large, 3-10in., linear-lanceolate, much tapering at both ends, 
entire, glabrous or slightly rough with minute prickles, minute- 
ly glandular ; midrib prominent, broad, lateral veins numerous, 
pellucid. Petiole very short (|-|in ), stout ; stipules about 1 in., 
membranous, veined, truncate, not ciliate. Flowers bright-pink, 
numerous all the year round on short glabrous pedicels ; racemes 
l-3in., erect; bracts short, truncate, glabrous. Perianth ^-Rn., 
hong, pink or whi e, not glandular ; segments broadly oval, acute. 
Stamens usually 8 (sometimes fewer), shorter than perianth. 
Styles 2 divergent, sometimes 3, united above the middle ; 
stigmas globose. Nuts black shining, -fin. in diam., usually 
rounded and flattened, 3 angled in the 3 styled flowers. 
It is difficult to separate this from smooth forms ot P. Persicaria, of which 
it is the tropical representative ; it is, however, much larger, less branched, 
with more attenuate leaves brown when dry, and normally ciliate bracts and 
stipules. (Hooker.) 
Uses:— An infusion of the leaves is used by the country 
people of Bombay to relieve pain in colic (Dymock). In Chutia 
Nagpur, it is employed as a cure for “ stitch in the side,” 
and in Assam as a remedy for fever (Watt). 
1059. P. 'persicaria , Linn , h.f.b.i., v 35. 
Habitat Western Himalaya, Kashmir, etc. 
Use It may be put to the same uses as the other species 
of this genus. 
Annual, erect or ascending, leaves subsessile, elliptic-oblong 
or lanceolate eglandular, stipules usually hirsute and ciliate, 
